This week’s show featured a discussion entitled “What Happens Next? Reconstructing Iraq and Afghanistan,” organized by Boston University’s Core Curriculum Current Affairs Association. The panel focused on human rights, infrastructure development and the fragile political cultures of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discussion panelists were Dr. Lynn Amowitz, senior medical researcher with “Physicians for Human Rights;” Professor Thomas Barfield, Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and Professor Paul Zimansky, who teaches archaeology at Boston University.